Jul 31 2025
Fuchsias are the kind of flowers that barely look real. Their dangling blossoms combine vivid pinks, reds, purples, whites, and corals in intricate layers, hanging from arching stems like tiny lanterns or ballerina skirts. Trailing varieties spill beautifully from hanging baskets, while upright forms can fill containers and garden borders with color from summer into …
Jul 30 2025
Few garden flowers have the presence of a peony in full bloom. Their enormous, silky blossoms can be delicately cupped or extravagantly double, appearing in shades of white, blush pink, coral, crimson, burgundy, and even yellow. Some varieties add fragrance to the display, filling the late-spring garden with a sweet perfume that makes their relatively …
Jul 22 2025
Few ground covers combine brilliant flowers, succulent foliage, and an ability to handle dry conditions quite like ice plants. When happy, these low-growing perennials spread into colorful mats covered with daisy-like flowers in shades of pink, purple, yellow, orange, red, and white. Hardy ice plants in the genus Delosperma are particularly useful in sunny, dry …
Jul 20 2025
Sea thrift is the kind of plant that proves a garden does not need lush soil and constant watering to be beautiful. Its tidy mounds of narrow, grass-like leaves stay low to the ground while slender stems rise above them carrying rounded clusters of pink, white, or rosy-purple flowers. Also known as thrift or sea …
Jul 19 2025
Few garden vines can transform a bare fence or simple trellis as quickly as morning glories. Their twining stems climb eagerly upward, covering supports with heart-shaped leaves and trumpet-shaped flowers that seem made for summer mornings. Classic varieties bloom in luminous blue, but morning glories also come in purple, pink, white, red, striped, and bicolored …
Jul 04 2025
Tall purple flower spikes rising above narrow, grass-like foliage make blazing star one of the most distinctive perennials in a summer garden. Also known as Liatris or gayfeather, this North American native is especially valuable when you want a plant that looks dramatic without demanding constant attention. Blazing star is also a wonderful choice for …
Jun 16 2025
A garden filled with flowers is beautiful to us, but to a bee, butterfly, hummingbird, or moth, it can also be a place to eat, rest, reproduce, and survive. That makes National Pollinator Week a perfect time to look at the yard a little differently. Instead of thinking only about what makes a landscape neat …
Jun 04 2025
Gardens have inspired writers, poets, philosophers, and artists for centuries. Some have seen gardening as a form of art, others as a lesson in patience, and still others as a refuge from the noise and demands of everyday life. The best gardening quotes capture something gardeners already understand: growing things changes the way we notice …
May 30 2025
June is when the garden really starts to feel alive. Spring growth has filled in, warm-season vegetables are settling into their beds, flowers are beginning to peak, and weeds seem capable of appearing overnight. It is also a month when small tasks can make a big difference later in summer. A little weeding now can …
May 15 2025
Few flowers deliver quite as much drama as dahlias. Their blooms range from neat little pompons to enormous dinner-plate flowers, with colors spanning creamy white, buttery yellow, coral, pink, orange, red, burgundy, lavender, and nearly black. Even better, dahlias don’t give you just one brief show. With good care and regular flower picking, healthy plants …
